jlarocco

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by jlarocco 6y ago
> from a dedicated unprivileged user, so it can't do any harm beyond recording my conversations Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by that, I don't really see the point in it, TBH. Have there been cases of Zoom infe
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I'm actually working on a library like that for Common Lisp, but it's still very much a work in progress. My goal is to have a framework where I can experiment with different parts of OpenGL by sub-classing something and then over
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Perfect timing! I just got a new machine with a Quadro RTX4000 card, and I've been looking for example code to see what it can do. It still blows my mind that Mandelbrot fractals (and now ray tracing) that would take 10s of minutes to
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I guess I was fortunate to never get sucked into mobile like I did computers. For me, the phone's always been utilitarian. I use it to take pictures, text friends, make calls, and occasionally check email or search the web when a com
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Why do it yourself if you want to avoid learning how? ffmpeg has documentation, and people actually read it and learn to use it...
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> We used to have the same kind of crap in the USA. Oh we still do: https://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-26-12-there...
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I'm 100% in agreement that a Facebook account shouldn't be required to use an Oculus. But to continue on your tangent, I'm curious what people expect Facebook to do if they don't collect some amount of identifying inform
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> Even if a book is out of print, you can't start selling it--or even giving copies away for free. That's not exactly true. You can't photocopy it and start printing your own. But if you have legal copies of it, you can d
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by jlarocco 6y ago
That's an arbitrary line to draw, and really misses the forest for the trees. It makes little difference in the end if it's a corporation blackmailing and ruining a person's life or a government. Facebook can share your data
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by jlarocco 6y ago
> These automatic tagging features also bring to question the bias in algorithms. What does this mean for drivers with disabilities? Is it possible that a safe driver with ADHD or Turrets etc might be flagged as inattentive during an aut
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by jlarocco 6y ago
If we had a working government, we'd raise their taxes and add registration fees to cover the costs. In our actual government, though, their lobbiests would kill that immediately.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
On one hand I agree with you, but I also think it's besides the point. What you and I call it doesn't matter - for legal (and tax) purposes, bread with too much sugar stops being a "staple food" and becomes cake. It&#x2
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I'd love to know the name of it if there is! It seems to happen quite a bit.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Agreed... the author is being premature to blow this up. The contest seems to be in good faith but had unintended consequences. Regrettable, but it happens. Give them a chance to fix it before trying to ruin their day over it.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I can't imagine that first seed investor wouldn't press charges and file a lawsuit.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I can see 5 or 10% slipping under the radar, but 90%? What were these 200 employees even working on? Engineering would be the most distant from customers, I guess, but even they must've noticed how few
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by jlarocco 6y ago
That's not really Joe Rogan's fault, though. If somebody's going to commit an act of violence based on a radio host's statements then they already have serious issues, and it's only a matter of time before something
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Is it necessary to go through all that work to re-license, though? I don't see the problem with how they're handling it now. The person in question is free to use the code and be an asshole. Everybody else is free to call him ou
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I wouldn't go quite that far, but the sense of schadenfreude on reading the article was through the roof. Spam and web advertising have always been underhanded, and if a person with "15+ years in adtech" can't avoid an a
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Something sounds fishy about this. What exactly were the 7 engineers doing during this time? And none of them thought to Google it or call support? TBH, I won't claim I know the best way to do this, but I'm 100% sure a call to A
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by jlarocco 6y ago
I won't reply on Twitter, but the first response I see is: "You're attacking a website that only supports Chrome because it is the only browser that supports the API that its entire product is based around " Kind of mis
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by jlarocco 6y ago
This is only tangentially related, but I've always thought it was interesting, so I point it out whenever it's applicable... John Kemmeny (one of the inventors of Basic) wrote a book in 1972, "Man and the Computer," summ
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Speak for yourself. I use X11 forwarding a few times a week, and it works fine for the things I need it for. "It doesn't work for me, therefore nobody needs it," isn't a valid argument. And thinking about it a bit, it w
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Besides looking like a kid's go-cart, I think it's bad in the sense that cars go through safety testing and are governed by a ton of rules and regulations, and it's unlikely they've tested the cars with parts scrounged f
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Giving software away for free isn't a business model, was never meant to be, and the math just doesn't work. There are some very small niche projects where a few small core developers make a living doing contract development impl
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Yes, always. No company is explicitly, purposefully doing evil. Also, "evil" is such a subjective word that it's almost meaningless with no context.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Oh yeah, that I agree with. "Don't be evil," was always a gimmick, IMO. Not sure there's any real solution, though. As long as there's a government, there's going to be somebody who thinks it's evil.
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by jlarocco 6y ago
TBH, I think this is the wrong situation to trot out "Don't be evil." Law enforcement has always been able to subpoena this type of information. From phone companies, credit card companies, ISPs, etc. If Google wants to l
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by jlarocco 6y ago
That's an interesting theory, but not true in practice. Common Lisp IDEs are great and don't have any problems with macros. Even going back to the 70s and 80s, with Lisp machines. Using Slime, the Common Lisp IDE mode in Emacs,
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by jlarocco 6y ago
Sure, preparedness has costs, but the article makes the point poorly, IMO. Many of the arguments are non sequiturs. The last example is particularly bad. On an icy road, it doesn't matter if a car gets 100 mpg or 10 mpg - speed and t

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